Meh. I really can't stand comics featuring insane troubled genius boys and the gorgeous rake-thin doormat girls who love them. I just want the girl to knee him in the cods and walk out of there like a normal person.

Meh. I really can't stand comics featuring insane troubled genius boys and the gorgeous rake-thin doormat girls who love them. I just want the girl to knee him in the cods and walk out of there like a normal person.

That comic is just like a Linkin Park song. It's for people who like to project themselves on a character who's saying "OMG look at me, I'm so psychically oppressed by my life, I just have to scream and hurt myself and hurt others to prove how valid my pain is - oh, and my improbably hot GF loves me no matter what I do to her." Grow up.

Solid graphics.
No Elves.
Interesting combat system.
No Dwarves.
Lots of character flexibility. If you're willing to put in the time, you can be a "warrior" or a "mage" or a "cleric" or a dedicated crafter, or whatever you like, according to your mood and needs at the time. You aren't locked into a character class.
No magic swords.
A pretty good amount of character customization at the beginning.
Fun crafting.
The people I've run into thus far seem pretty well behaved, I have yet to notice language or behavior I found annoying.

The bad:

Game is terribly laggy.
The game has some semi decent tutorials for some, but not all of the game systems. Many things are unnecessarily unintuitive.
The game is buggy. Not unplayably so, but it's definitely noticeably buggy.
Server populations feel rather low. Not a very strong sense of community, at least not yet.
You really cannot quite escape the underlying reality that the game, for all that it's fun, is based on an IP that's pretty played out by now.

No, it's not as polished as WoW (or CoH, for that matter). But I've been enjoying it a fair amount, once I figured out to do deal with the game's quirks (for example always using the marketplace from within the loading area, not the hardlines, which locks up the game for me). What I find fascinating is, I'm enjoying it despite not playing a dedicated healer/cleric type, which is my typical style. If anyone has the game or is interested, I'm playing "Watchword" on the Proxy server.